Re: dog food / dog treats
Food: My dogs get either a homemade BARF diet or Burn's Real food for pets http://www.burns-pet-nutrition.com/index.htm when we are travelling or I'm too busy to make the homemade version. Burn's is the only dried food that Harvey, my fickle boy eats, with gusto. The ingredients are top-notch, it doesn't contain any genetically modified ingredients and doesn't use battery chickens ( very important for me since I insist on ethical farming methods). And the dogs love it. It's available in the UK and the US, and I could highly recommend it. My only complaint is that it's a little low in protein ( 18.5 %) which would be perfect for a less active or older dog, but I simply add some tinned fish or cooked chicken for my boys. Treats/Chews Dried lambs liver ( you can easily dry your own in the oven, too!), James Wellbeloved's Crackerjacks ( yummy, crunchy and they brake into small pieces), raw marrow bones ( entire knuckle ones) and something I think you call macho sticks in the US. Here they go under the fetching name bulls pizzles since they are dried bulls penises ( you guys in the States are a bashful bunch!). They are completely natural, will keep the dogs chewing happily for a long time and are the only chew I have found which doesn't get soggy ( when darling doggy drags it out in the garden and leaves it there in the rain for a while), the dog can't bite of chunks as with rawhide ( thereby minimising choking) and they are HUGE. I kid you not, I buy mine 5' long and either chop them in halve or just give them entire. The only problem is, you'll never walk past another bull without scrutinising his privates and smirking. Oh , and cubes of cheese! Cheese is medicine for a Berner. Michaela, Harvey Rupert Devon/UK PS I have no affiliation with Burn's - I just like their food.
Re: Dog Food
In Digest 4138, nbmws6 wrote (and didn't sign): It is also stated on that site that euthanized pets from the shelters are also being used for pet food, thus getting the drug into the food, anyone see the old movie Soilent Green? Disgusting. --- If you read more carefully, euthanized dogs and cats were specifically NOT found in the food. Your misreading of the facts is how unfounded rumors get started. Here is the salient paragraph: Because pentobarbital is used to euthanize dogs and cats at animal shelters, finding pentobarbital in rendered feed ingredients could suggest that the pets were rendered and used in pet food. CVM scientists, as part of their investigation, developed a test to detect dog and cat DNA in the protein of the dog food. All samples from the most recent dog food survey (2000) that tested positive for pentobarbital, as well as a subset of samples that tested negative, were examined for the presence of remains derived from dogs or cats. The results demonstrated a complete absence of material that would have been derived from euthanized dogs or cats Adam Conn __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
Re: Dog Food
My question would be is this added to the food or being added because they are using euthanized pets in their food and it's getting into the food through these pets. No it is from euthanized cattle and horses that have been processed for the food. It is not being added by hand. Kelly Weir Michigan http://home.twmi.rr.com/skylinebmd/index.html/hopeindex.htm
Re: Dog Food
Here is the link to the Fox 2 News web site www.wjbk.com . Kelly Weir Michigan http://home.twmi.rr.com/skylinebmd/index.html/hopeindex.htm
Re: Dog Food
I have this link that was posted a few weeks ago. http://www.doglogic.com/petsinfood.htm - Original Message - From: Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bernese Mountain Dog Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 6:25 PM Subject: Re: Dog Food Here is the link to the Fox 2 News web site www.wjbk.com . Kelly Weir Michigan http://home.twmi.rr.com/skylinebmd/index.html/hopeindex.htm
Re: Dog Food
One must read all of the reports as this story of cats and dogs in dog food has been around for a long time. The following is from the FDA report on testing of Pet Foods. Despite suspicions that pentobarbital may come from euthanized dogs and cats from animal shelters, the FDA says DNA tests on the products show no sign of dogs or cats. The same report list three of the foods that tested for Phenobarbital. So one had to read all of the reports at the Government FDA site to get the full story. Not just what NEWS stations want to report. To use the term feed Kibbles is a very broad statement as their are many very good kibbles on the market that pose no threat of any kind to our Dogs or Cats. I do not think the Whole Dog Journal would list the top 10 Dog Foods in the Journal if they felt for one moment that they were dangerous to our Pets. Ray Burgett Ray Pat Burgett Eaglecap Bernese Talee,Lexi,Boomer,Bell Max www.goodbernerfood.com http://users.eoni.com/~eaglecap/ Draminski Ovulation Detector Rep
